And Death Came Calling

‘India’s literary storm trooper’ – Business Standard From his state-of-the art control room – providing security to ‘smart homes’ of India’s rich – ex-army man Ashwin can see and hear pretty much everything happening in and around his clients’ homes. Through strategically placed cameras he is aware of all the nefarious goings-on behind the closed doors of the very wealthy. But when one of his clients dies suddenly, with his Swiss bank number winking enticingly on his computer screen, Ashwin realizes the full potential of this brilliant system … and his intentions change. Moving at breakneck pace from the protagonist’s control room to the sprawling houses of Delhi’s rich and famous, Mukul Deva crafts what is probably India’s first techno crime novel. This crackling thriller will have you riveted right till the jaw-dropping sting-in-the-tail end. ‘You can smell the gunpowder. Such is the power of the words of Mukul Deva’ – The Hindu

An alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow, the National Defence Academy, Pune, and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Mukul Deva was commissioned in December 1981 into the Sikh Light Infantry of the Indian Army. He took early retirement from the army after fifteen years of service, including a decade of combat operations in India and overseas. Co-founder of MSD Security Private Limited, headquartered in Delhi, and the Singapore-based Influence Solutions Private Limited, Mukul has also served as a mentor on the UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan. Now settled in Singapore, he is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and an executive, business and creativity coach. He is the author of Time After Time … It All Happened, S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E: The Art of Corporate Warfare, M.O.D.E.L.: The Return of the Employee, The Dust Will Never Settle, Weapon of Vengeance, R.I.P., F.C.U.K. Your Way To Success, The Garud Strikes and the Lashkar Series-Lashkar, Salim Must Die, Blowback and Tanzeem. For more about him, please visit his website www.mukuldeva.com.